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Philosophers Behaving Badly

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While philosophy can enlighten, it can also mislead and delude. As Descartes observed, 'The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.'

This book explores the perils of philosophy. It shows that philosophers' own behaviour, sometimes bad, sometimes sad, occasionally downright mad, is seldom entirely unconnected with their thinking.

Philosophers Behaving Badly examines the lives of eight great philosophers: Rousseau, whose views on education and the soc...